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Seems like a lotta just-barely outs against the Cardinals this series, although maybe it's (1) my being a Cardinal fan so I notice the almost-hits or (2) that the Red Sox are just doing what a normal defense does, but I'm used to watching the Cardinals and their terrible defense.

I'm not sure how trophy presentations have changed since the '60s and/or '80s, but I always thought this would be extremely awkward in the modern on-field ceremony. "Now we're going to bring out a member of the losing team into the middle of the celebration to present him with a trophy!"

Suggestion: We should have an annual, official "All-Postseason Team" made up of the 10 teams in the playoffs, eight position players plus a starter and reliever.

Stark on Twitter points out that Ortiz's 10-for-14 includes a robbed grand slam as one of the outs.

Actually I just looked at the numbers, and Stark is right, although he confuses things by using the "10-for-14": Ortiz was 10-for-13, with a sac fly---so he did in fact have four outs; three that count against his batting average, and then the sac fly.